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Politique étrangère is a journal of debate and analysis on major political, economic and security issues affecting international relations. It is the oldest French journal in its field.

It aims to provide economic and political decision makers and academics with in-depth analysis of international topical issues, highlighting major debates on international relations and serving as a long-term reference tool.
Each issue is composed of at least two special dossiers on topics of international significance, as well as several articles which analyze a range of current events affecting global affairs today. In addition, Politique étrangère provides a literary review of a wide range of French and foreign publications dealing with contemporary international relations.

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Abstract

Lancé dès 1989, le débat sur la construction d'une nouvelle architecture politique et de sécurité pour le continent parvenait, en ce début de 1991 alors même qu'éclatait la guerre du Golfe, à une double clarification. Clarification d'abord pour ce qui est de la grande Europe : officiellement née au sommet de Paris de la CSCE, elle aura la tâche difficile de gérer une transition instable à l'Est tout en préparant la sécurité collective de l'Atlantique à l'Oural. Clarification aussi pour la petite Europe : ni « Europe fédérale », ni « Europe des Etats », l'union politique des Douze devra s'imposer selon des modalités originales. Mais l'affaire du Golfe brouille à nouveau les cartes et relève, pour l'Europe, d'un quitte ou double : soit elle ne sera pas ; soit elle se dessinera selon les modalités esquissées par la clarification de 1989-1990. Initiated by the events of 1989, the debate over the post-cold war European political and security architecture was on the verge of clarification when the Gulf war irrupted in January 1991. The first clarification concerns the larger European framework of the CSCE. Born at the Paris Summit, it will have the difficult task of managing an instable transition in the East as well as paving the ground for a collective security regime from the Atlantic to the Urals. As for the second clarification, the smaller Europe of the EC should follow a new tack between the traditional federaltit and intergovernmental models of integration through the political Union of its members. But the Gulf war and its aftermath could prove a double or quits as far as Europe is concerned : either the continental order will be reconstructed along the lines established in 1989-1990, or a deep and lasting phase of uncertainty will prevail.